Re: Fixing cursor height when setting line-spacing

[Karan Ahlawat <ahlawatkaran12@gmail.com>]

On 05/08/23 16:11, Yuri Khan wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 12:45, Karan Ahlawat<ahlawatkaran12@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I set the line-height variable to be a positive integer (16). My
>> cursor-type is set to t. Now, whenever I move the cursor to the end of a
>> line, the height of the cursor is equal to the entire line height. But
>> anywhere else on the line, it's equal to the height of the character
>> under the cursor.
> I am using a non-zero line-spacing value and I don’t observe a
> difference in the block cursor size in my normal usage. This is likely
> because my normal usage includes ‘global-whitespace-mode’ for most
> editing modes, with a display mapping for the newline character. I
> have customized the ‘whitespace-space’ face to be very unobtrusive.
>
> ‘whitespace-mode’ modifies the display of spaces, tab characters, and
> newlines, so you can see the difference where it would not otherwise
> be visible. With it enabled, from redisplay’s point of view, the
> cursor is never at the end of line — instead, it’s on the glyph
> substituted for the newline, so the cursor at the logical end of line
> has the same height as within the line.

Hello, thank you for your advice as well. Right now I've decided to try 
and get used to BAR cursor. If I can't though, I will most likely use 
whitespace mode as well, to keep it consistent overall.

Cheers,

Karan